Downloads for intel graphics media accelerator 500 intel gma 500. Howto get the best performace from the gma 500 video. I would like to know if the new opensource video driver included in kernel 3. It will run under ubuntu, i know that is not your distro of choice. About gma 500 driver development intel developer zone. Hardwaresupportcomponentsvideocardspoulsbo ubuntu wiki.
Make sure you have no usb devices hooked up as this will cause conflicting results with the poulsbodriver3d drivers. This project aims to port the mandriva patches for the psb driver to ubuntu lucid. Intel graphics media accelerator driver for windows 7 32 zip this download installs version 5. Linux on gma 500 intel gma 500 driver optimized for ms. Ubuntu supports gma500 poulsbo through the ubuntumobile and gma500. Supports up to 384 mb video memorywindows xp driver, directx 9. After installing, an xorg file is needed to setup the driver. This download installs intel graphics media accelerator driver version 15. It is now beyond my experience to advise any further. The intel gma 500 series, also known by its codename poulsbo or intel system controller hub us15w, is a family of integrated video adapters based on the powervr sgx 535 graphics core. The intel graphics media accelerator, or gma, is a series of integrated graphics processors.
This page details support for the intel gma500 poulsbo video hardware with ubuntu 12. Downloads for intel graphics media accelerator 500 intel. Vista gma500 driver is not compatible with win7, using it leads to a lot of bsod in many operations. Anonimo 11 febbraio alternatively, intel gma 500 linux can try the mainline kernel. Difficulties installing ubuntu server and many other linux on intel atom d2550. During the installation, the gma 500 and other stuff were blacklisted. Really better than ubuntu linux on gma if your hardware is not listed, you may need to experiment. The driver support of this gfx chipset has always been poor and mainly communitydriven, now finally we have a kms opensource driver, written by kernel hackers, and actually included in staging kernel repo. It is typically found on boards for the atom z processor series. But this is the way to install driver under ubuntu i think. For obsolete and unsupported drivers see gma500 obsolete drivers. Features include hardware decoding capability of up to 720p1080i video content in various stateoftheart codecs, e. Which xorg driver not kernel driver to use with gma500poulsbo.